Word: offerings
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...wakes a P.W. just returned from Russia who is sleeping in a doorway-merely to check his papers. But after a while you will see him stop by a tree on a corner. He will remove a score of little slips of paper pinned there. They read: "Want bread, offer German cigarettes . . ." "Will sell linen tablecloth and curtains for money or food . .." ". . . Discharged P.W. wants pair of pants; gives money or potatoes." This is illegal barter, but every neighborhood has its own Brotbaum (bread tree). Berlin in this spring of 1948 is undeniably a city-but the life...
...This offer may be someone's flight of fancy," Ornstein opined, "and we won't go out on a limb by accepting now. The whole thing seems dizzy to me," he added, as he stumbled down a short flight of steps...
...summer session will last from June 28 to August 21, and will offer courses in all the usual academic categories. Credit will be given by the College at the same rate as in the regular fall and spring terms, with the standard study program reduced from four to two half-courses...
...comprise the bulk of the magazine. But when creations such as Austryn Wainhouse's "Selection: The Peripateties," typical of that irritating sort of writing that requires the reader to approach it as if it were a puzzle, continue to appear in magazine after magazine, there is good reason to offer a hesitant objection. I say hesitant, because baffled as surely I am as to the meaning of this story, I cannot say honestly whether my reaction is the result of my own confusion or of the author's. But it is one or the other, and the sort of writing...
Except for the Great Unus, along with the Great Lamberti and the Great Alzanas, this year's Ringling Brothers Barnum and Bailey Circus has little out of the ordinary to offer, which is not a particularly damning criticism if you happen to be entertained by polar bears, clowns, horses, acrobats, dancing girls, lions, aerialists, or unicycle riders. These standard items have been produced with aplomb, magnificence, smoothness, showmanship, and noisy music, leaving little to be nostalgically longed after by circus devotees except possibly the Wallendas, who used to ride bicycles across high wires...